Garment hanger sleeve holder



April 7, 1953 I J. M. HERSHBERGER 2,634,030

GARMENT HANGER SLEEVE HOLDER Fi led Nov. 15, 1951 Ivvawron, ,JAMES M. HERSHBERGER,

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Application November 15, 1951, Serial No. 256,495

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a garment hanger to which are applied sleeve holders in such manner that the holders may be inserted through the sleeves of the garment, such as a coat, and these holders will hold the sleeves in an extended, flat condition so as to avoid wrinkling or mussing while the garment is hanging on the hanger.

The invention is incorporated preferably with the common and well known wire type of hanger, although other types may be employed equally as well. To the hanger there is freely, rockably attached a holder. for each sleeve, the holder normally hanging vertically downwardly from the hanger so that the weight of the holder will normally tend to hold the sleeves in a downwardly extending position in reference to the hanger. The sleeve holders are made to be both extensible longitudinally and laterally so that the holders may be accommodated to varying sizes and lengths of sleeves all in a very simple manner.

With the holders supported by the ordinary wire hanger, these holders are provided with a loop in each instance, forming an eye, so that the wire of the hanger may be carried through the eye and the holder may be moved across the transverse bar provided on the wire hanger and also carried up around the ends so that the holder may be freely entered into the sleeve of the garment through the arm holes all without having to stretch the garment, or otherwise go through any bending actions or like manipulations of the hanger or of the holders. A further advantage of the invention resides in the extreme simplicity of the invention achieving the above indicated results all in a form which may be produced at a low cost of production.

The invention is described in reference to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a view in side elevation of a hanger to which the invention is applied; Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of a sleeve holder; and

Fig. 3 is a view in transverse section on the line 3-3 in Fig. 2, on an enlarged scale.

A garment hanger of any of the well known forms, made out of wire, is herein shown as being formed from a single length of wire to have a hanger hook Ill fromwhich the wire extends through a shank l l to continue downwardly and outwardly through an inclined length i2 which normally serves to pass under the shoulder portion of the garment, and from this length l2 the wire is carried around through a curved end portion 13, thence through a straight transverse length l4, back around upwardly through the 2 bend It into the upwardly inclined length 16 and thence finally upwardly into a length ll which is twisted around the shank l l to fix that end I! in position, and complete the shape of the hanger, the hanger being generally designated by the numeral 8;

There are two sleeve holders designated generally by the numerals l9 and 20 provided to swing freely from the transverse length M of the hanger 18. Since each of these holders l9 and 26 are identical in shape and size, the description of the one holder 1 9 will be sufiicient to describe both holders I9 and 20. Referring to Fig. 2, a length of wire is formed into a general wishbone shape to have the two legs 21 and 22 curving outwardly and downwardly from an upper eye 23 which is formed by making one complete turn of the wire through the bend 24 to have the ends of wires extend around and downwardly into the leg portions 2! and 22.

Two L-shaped wire members 25 and 26 are formed and the respective legs 21 and 28 are carried upwardly along the lower end portions 29 and 3B of the legs 2| and 22 respectively. The leg 2'! and the portion 29 are interengaged by means of any suitable clamp, herein shown as a U-shaped band 3| straddling the two members 21 and 29 to be squeezed thereagainst by means of a thumb screw 32, Fig. 3.

In like manner, the leg 28 and the portion 30 are adjustably interengaged by means of a clamp 33 and the thumb screw 36 formed in identically the same manner as the members 3| and 32 as illustrated in Fig. 3. The lower legs 35 and 36 of the two L members 25 and 26 extend one along the other, Fig. 2, and are adiustably interengaged by a clamp 31 passing over the two legs 35 and 31B and clamped thereagainst by means of the thumb screw 35, the clamps 3| 33, and 31 being identical in shape and size.

In forming the hanger 18, before the end IT is twisted around the shank H, the two holders l9 and 20 have the bar It passed through their eyes 23 so that the holders l9 and 20 hang freely from that bar l9 and may be shifted from one end to the other and likewise are free to revolve around that length it, only within the limits of the inclined members l2 and Hi.

In using the device, the holders l9 and 20 are inserted through the armholes of the garment and allowed to extend downwardly through the sleeves, and the garment is pulled upwardly and around over the lengths l2 and I6 of the hanger I 8. The holders l9 and 20 may be readily adjusted to conform to the Width and length of the sleeves by reaching up through the cufis and loosening and tightening the clamps M, 33, and 31 so as to secure the desired overall length of the holder l9 or 20 as the case may be, or both, and also the clamp 31 may be loosened and tightened to allow the holder to be expanded or retracted laterally by allowing the legs 35 and 36 to slide one past the other through the clamp 31 to be ultimately secured in position by the thumb screw 38. In other words, the holders l9 and 20 are both longitudinally extensible and also laterally extensible.

While I have herein shown and described my invention in the one particular form, it is obvious that structural changes may be "employed without departing from the spirit of the invention, and I therefore do not desire to be limited to that precise form beyond the limitations which may be imposed by the following claim.

I claim:

For use with a garment hanger, a sleeve holder comprising a wishbone-shaped frame composed of a pair of elastic wire members; a centrally disposed upper end eye portion; said wire mem- REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Blackman Feb. 26, 1952 FOREIGN PATENTS Country Date Switzerland May 1, 190,1

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